
Blocks: Course dedication
Introduction
This block allows to see the estimated dedication time to a Moodle course by the participants of the course.
How dedication time is estimated?
Time is estimated based in the concepts of Session and Session duration applied to Moodle's log entries:
- Click: every time that a user access to a page in Moodle a log entry is stored.
- Session: set of two or more consecutive clicks in which the elapsed time between every pair of consecutive clicks does not overcome an established maximum time.
- Session duration: elapsed time between the first and the last click of the session.
Features
This block is intended to be used only by teachers, so students aren't going to see it and their dedication time. However, block can be configured to show dedication time to students too.
Teachers can use a tool to analyse dedication time within a course. The tool provides three views:
- Dedication time of the course: calculates total dedication time, mean dedication time and connections per day for each student.
- Dedication time of a group: the same but only for choosed group members.
- Dedication of a student: detailed sessions for a student with start date & time, duration and ip.
The tools have a link to download all data in spreadsheet format. The use is restricted by a capability to teachers and admins only.
This block cannot be used in the site page, only in courses pages.
All texts in English and Spanish (AMOS).
Available versions- Moodle 2.0 - 2.6: old Moodle 2 version.
- Moodle 2.7+ / 3.x+: Moodle 2.7 brought a new log system, so the plugin needed to be redone to use this new system. If you have upgraded your site from older versions (2.6 or below) you will need to enable legacy logging in Moodle administration to get dedication time. If you restore a course from an older version in a newer version, you won't have any problem.
Support
Support is offered in English and Spanish in these forum discussions:
- English discussion: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=109487
- Spanish discussion: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=109489
Code repository: https://bitbucket.org/ciceidev/moodle_block_dedication
Issues: https://bitbucket.org/ciceidev/moodle_block_dedication/issues
Credits
This block was developed and produced by CICEI at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University.
First version for Moodle 1.9 by Borja Rubio Reyes.
Updated and improved version for Moodle 2.x and 3.x by Aday Talavera Hierro.
Could you please tell me about an approximate date of deployment?
If some of you have more problems, probably is not related with this module.
is it possible to track not only the students, but also the teacher activity?
Ricardo
In my installation users with "editingteacher" role are showing on the list.
I could only find "block/dedication:addinstance" and "block/dedication:use" and they are set to "permit".
I´m using the latest version.
Any idea?
Ricardo
# Participants: 65
But the "Dedication Block" only shows 32 (????)
All the 32 participants that are showing in the Dedication Block belong to a group!!!
Tested with another course with 200 Participants and the Dedication Block shows all of them (no groups)
It seems to me that this block does not work correctly when there are groups in the course.
I just checked it out!